A note on the Kin.

Minimum Stat Recommendations for Naxx

Okay, here's a list I've found for some minimum stat recommendations to raid Naxx as promised. Not sure how accurate these are, so comments are welcome and appreciated. THANKS!

Naxxramas Raid Minimum Fear/Stat Requirements

Tanks:

• Defense Rating: 540 (Defense Cap)

• Health: 25,000

• Armor: 21,000

DPS

• 1.2k dps... 1.5k preferred

• Classes whose dps depends on attack power (such as rogues and fury warriors) should have at least 2.5k Attack Power.

• Classes whose dps depends on Spell Power (such as warlocks and mages) should have at least 1,350 Spell Power.

• DPS should have at least 75-percent of the 'to hit' cap. (I have no idea what this mean exactly, but I'd say make sure your hit rating's pretty good. Any comments that can shed more light on this would be much appreciated).

Healers

• A minimum of 1,400 bonus healing

• 160 mana regeneration per 5 seconds

Getting Better all the Time

Sunday was, simply put, wonderful as the ASG went against High King Maulgar and Gruul.

With it, we achieved things which some of us have been working toward for quite a long time (far too long in my opinion, but I'm stubborn).

Let's take a look at what's going on within The Kindred and the ASG alliance.

On Sunday, we were able to pull together more than 20 people--excluding one of the raiders, they were all from one of the guilds in the asg alliance. Really, really cool. What's more, there were quite a few who had never raided before at all, and we were able to give them a taste of what it's like--and school them a little of standard raid techniques such as making sure the tanks have established aggro before beginning attacks.

It resulted in the deaths of both the High King ogre and Gruul. Ten of us also took out Tenris Murkblood, the new boss in Karazhan.

Now, I'm well aware all raids have been nerfed. But there's a reason why that's happened, and we're going to take full advantage of it over the next several weeks until the expansion. That means, if you want to raid, we're going to do everything in our power to make sure you can. Ideally, you'll be level 70, but if you're not and we have slots open and the instance allows a lower level--you're in.

This could lead to more members joining the guild, but whether or not that happens is irrelevant. We really don't need a whole lot more members as we have enough to do pretty much what we want to do as it is. Of course, we can never have too many healers--we're not the only guild like that, I can assure you.

In fact, we have some members joining who have seen more of the high-end game content than I have--such as Sunwell Plateau and Black Temple--and they've joined knowing exactly what kind of guild we are because we offer a relatively stress free environment to play in without expecting our members to raid while containing a large population of players to pull from and attempt to get things accomplished. Boy, that was sure a mouthful.

Attempting to continue our aim at success, we need to a)keep recruiting at the slow pace we have been with about 1-3 players every two weeks...we especially need more druids and rogues at all specs as well as death knights once the expansion hits; and b) try to draw more people to the Website here.

Funny thing about guild Websites. Most guild populations do not frequent them. We used to require joining our old forums when people joined the guild, but all that resulted in was a high roster with very few checking the site. I hope that by encouraging it, and people signing up at their own free will, that the rosters will actually reflect how much the sites are being accessed. It just offers a little more things we can do within the game.

To reiterate add-ons we use (primarily for raiders): Group Calendar (I personally remain in favor of using the new in-game calendar), Omen threat meter, and Deadly Boss Mods.

I'll see you in-game. Fight the Scourge!
-Bekk 

Wrath Updates

The Scourge is upon Us

Brethren,
I beg you to watch your steps. A disease of unspeakable terror is upon us and turning all it touches into wretched horrors who live by feeding off the living. Rumor has it that the disease started from mysterious crates covered in runes, it spreads if you're touched by one who has been changed.

All is no lost, however. Agents of the Argent Dawn, healers have arrived in the cities who can cleanse the disease away. Unfortunately, there are some reports that it is mutating and that it may end as being unhealable.

There is much concern this is Arthas at work. You will recall how, when the disease in the plaguelands began spreading, he began killing infected people to prevent them from changing, leading the mighty paladin down a path he would not return from.

Guard yourselves in the vestment of the light. Dispel the disease from the infected and fight back the scourge.

Light help us all.

-Kindred Guild Master Becky

(Or, if you're so inclined, become infected and spread the disease. The first world event in years is upon us. Go out and have some fun! Lead infected zombie raids on cities or fight back the scourge. You'll have to keep killing and eating if you change to a zombie because your health continually goes down--some have reported switching helms every so often stops it, but that is unconfirmed and likely will be, or had already been, hot-fixed.)

In other news--the ASG run into Zul Aman last night was great. We made it to the last boss, Zul'Jin, but only attempted him once due to the hour getting late. Join us!

Download the latest version of group calendar if you have not yet done so. We will hopefully have an event in the near future to celebrate the world event.